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Time to revisit trans-Pacific trade
December 11, 2020Joshua Eisenman, associate professor of politics, analyzes China’s efforts to advance its global economic position and emphasizes the importance of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific […]
What can a chicken nugget from Russia tell us about technology, agriculture and human development?
December 2, 2020In July, the global fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken announced a partnership with a Russian company, 3D Bioprinting, for the purpose of producing chicken […]
Lessons from Puerto Rico: inter-country relationships, crises, and human thriving
October 29, 2020The relationship between inter-country integration and economic crises depends on how integration is implemented. Economic integration, understood as a high degree of ease in the […]
Effective policies for addressing economic inequality
October 6, 2020“Give me a one-handed economist!” The demand came from a frustrated Harry Truman. The President complained, by way of explanation, “All my economists say, ‘on […]
On economic inequality and human dignity
September 9, 2020If economic resources were distributed based on principles of equity and human dignity, would those in the top one percent hold twenty-two percent of the […]
Not just “business as usual”: Humanizing supply chains amid the pandemic
August 6, 2020Just days into the closure of our campus and larger communities this past March, I had the opportunity to speak with Gustavo Perez Burlanga, senior […]
“Seeing-as”
July 10, 2020An outcry In a particularly disturbing scene in J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, the protagonist defends four prisoners who are about to be […]